UKGTR Season 11 - Dubai (GP) - Jan 24

[Truetom]

Meh, ViperCC is in the same class - even more difficult for me. Or Elise. Or 350Z. Or Denise Milani. Erm, ups...

Denise Milani all the way... you'll do well to do the whole 80 mins though! 

Hell, 3 minutes is enough - including apologizing and showering... 

[Haiku]

Is qualifying going to be in daylight or night conditions?

[Legzy]

Is qualifying going to be in daylight or night conditions?

it will be the normal "Qually 2" settings for Dubai.

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Is qualifying going to be in daylight or night conditions?

it will be the normal "Qually 2" settings for Dubai.

I think what the game does it time shift the session times to match the shift in the selected race time from the default. In any case, it'll be in the same conditions as Q2 is offline with an 18:00 race start.

[ginsters sponsored]

Not sure I like Dubai but its a real stiff technical challenge for sure. Managed a low 59 in the 997 race trim but can't get very close to it in the Spyker, as yet. Maybe I'll use the 997

Will be on the server around half eight tonight.

[Jayblue]

Everytime i visit this track i'm suprised just how it punishes every small mistake. Done quite a few laps but i still don't feel comfortable with the car. Will be an interesting season finale thats for sure!

[Berger R - 74]

hello,
i did my first practise laps, my laptimes was ok to good.
i do like this track much, one of my favourite tracks.
i was between 0.2 seconds with lister, 575 and aston, looks like very equal cars this are.

servus

[David M]

So, I think my issues are related to using WiFi on this machine - I'm not in the position to be able to plumb in some Cat5 to run between here and the other end of the house, hence the use of WiFi - anyway, the connection doesn't drop, but when I just got disconnected twice in 5 mins on the server, I checked the signal strength and it was about 50% going by the graph, but it was operating at 24MBps.

I'm not sure if thats ~50% of the signal strength required for a 24MBps connection, or 50% signal strength, so the link bandwidth has negotiated down to 24MBps to maintain the link, I shall have to research it and find out, see if I can turn up the Tx on my router too, I'm on Ch. 11, and I set up my neighbours WiFi on Ch.1, so we don't have overlapping carriers, WiFi surver from my router suggests I'm clear of any other WiFi signals too.

I shall investigate in time for Season 12!

[spanner]

I use the homeplug units David as i would love to run cat5 around the house but would look too unsightly and have always had issues whenever i ran wifi.

I used to run these..
http://www.netgear.co.uk/home_powerline_adapters_performance.php

Anyway it seemd Bob was warping alot.

Was enjoying that, after finally switching on the G25 FFB affects lol I was a bit too forceful at times trying to defend from Matt but knew i could keep with Mcfids ahead. Sadly the leaders coming through helped spread it all out.

Actuall gave in as my brake foot is killing me! its going to take a while to get used to the extra strong pedal springs

[Truetom]

Will say sorry to Jay for a scary moment (good reaction, btw ) and to Berger - I didn't know it was you behind as another driver with the same car / colour was sometimes behind, sometimes in front and sometimes to the side. Grats to podys in race and Season.

[picnic]

Replay and provisional results posted

LapChart

[Berger R - 74]

Q.1...R.2

quali was ok.

i did a great race tonight, one of my best ever, i am happy with my speed, dubai is great track!
it looks like jayblue and me had same speed tonight in the race and perhaps i did loose it if the first much GTC cars to do lapping, is was suddently 5 sec. i think behind.
if we come to pistop i was perhaps 3-4 sec. behind and if we come out of pitbox i was 6.5-7 sec. behind, i did loose little time in pits because i was very close behind a GTC car in doing pitbox and i did not know when he will brake for speed limit and it did looks like he had same pit then me, but lucky for me he was 1 box in front, puh puh puh.
2nd stint was same as first, nearly same fast, sometimes i come little closer, sometime i loose a little, in one point of the race i had feeling i could perhaps can close the gap, but jayblue was to much constant and the more dark night was not easy for me, with the lights i was little confused.

congrats jayblue for win and strong race
congrats to 3rd simon and
congrats to GTC winner sponsored by ginster (no idea what this is??) and the GTC podium

good 4 races this was, see you next season

[Greg Metcalf]

Sorry for my flying start when the lights went green, i forgot all about the formation lap, no harm done i think, just me with a red face

[H@L9000]

Great Race!

Excellent fights with TT and Legzy.

Well done podiums and well done Gazza for GT1 driver championship win!

[ginsters sponsored]

Cheers for quitting Bob, as I'm sure you were looking forward to that. Hope you get that sorted for next season.

Crikey, exciting way to end season there

Pleased to drive well around here as its a very tricky challenge and a very fitting venue for finale. It went as smoothly as I could have hoped for with only real excitement happening when Pete spun and narrowly avoided Simon and I   Fitting that Prof drove excellently to beat Andy and MJ too second place. He's not been consistently strong at every track, taken a real step forward in pace I believe and I've thoroughly enjoyed the fight

That said, the real goal has been Team Champs and I am chuffed with the result. A just reward for Eddie, JPV, Tudor and myself who have worked hard on improving our results. Like I said chuffed

Thx to Dave, Pete and the moderator gents for making it happen. A full server through the whole season is a credit to you all. Congrats to all that took part.

S12?